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GRYPONYX
(grip-on-iks)
meaning: "hooked claw"
Named By: Robert Broom in 1911
Time Period: Lower Jurassic Hettangian-Sinemurian
Location: South Africa - Upper Elliot Formation
Size: About 5 meters long
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial post cranial skeleton
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Sauropodomorpha | Massopoda |
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Gryponyx (meaning "hooked-claw") is an extinct genus of massopod sauropodomorph known from southern Free State, central South Africa.

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